Reforger 1973. Ist Infantry Division, 1st Engineer Bn. Spent the 1st two weeks in Landstuhl with dysentery (long story about a trip to Mexico). After my release I drove a jeep for the signal officer from Grafenwehr to Pirmasens (Munchweiler). No doors or side curtains on that jeep. Plenty of schnapps to keep us warm. Interesting leading convoys across mountain ranges when the downhill sections involved trying to stay in front of 5 ton bridge trucks

I'm an Air Force brat, so I've only been places dad was stationed. We were at Ramstein from 84 to 86. I loved it there, but I was only about 10 or so. The snow was fun, living on base was fun... sneaking off base to the local Swimbad was fun.

That's when dad had a '74 Porsche 911. The guy next door to us had a 911 (turbo look SC, I think, probably an 81 or 82) too. That started my interest... now I have 1.5 Porsches! A 69 911T Targa, and a 70 911T that donated it's engine and tranny to the 69.

Anyway, I'd love to go back and see all the things I got to see in Europe now that I'm all growed up. Someday...

Fray: a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or disputeAdjacent: not distant, immediately preceding or following

" If you are in exactly the right place at the right time, shooting magnificently, applying good tactics--and you have the will and the skill--you can still get killed. Even if you did it all correctly."

[T]he [federal] government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, and oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any other despotic or oppressive form so long as there shall remain any virtue in the body of the people.

"The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters."